Avant Garde Movies

A musical audiovisual journey in four parts. A young man finds himself unexpectedly taking an audiovisual odyssey into a world of surreality, slowly...

A portrait of North Kolkata (Calcutta), this film searches the streets for the ebb and flow of humanity and reflects the changing landscape of a city...

Beginning in 1965 with Black Is, Tambellini launched a series of politically charged experimental films that explore the expressive possibilities of...

Staggeringly simple films: a man itching his back, a man thinking, a man yawning, but like the works of Samuel Beckett, these minute gestures stand...

Surreal film melding documentary footage of Chicago and its residents, featuring fast paced montage sequences set against a rollicking 1960s musical...

Hauntology of the Retrodromomania is an essayistic motion picture, a locomotory legwork, a deambulatory non-rural land survey, a casual journeying in...

A colorful collage, with a subtle ecology theme, made largely from footage from trial runs of programs used for many of the other films.

Dissonant selves dancing around opposition and harmony.

A lonesome man at the threshold of death finds himself trapped in a place called the Endless.

This piece represents a kind of autobiographical vision. I use myself to create all the figures, sometimes employing masks from the Noh theater to...

Prelude 10 is a double-printed film with an extreme mixture of darks shot thru with jewel-like bursts of color, and very white bursts of light and...

As the Cheshire Cat once said: Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality. This is Electric Mushrooms...

To summon the third eye awakening, we should not agitate the surface of the mind and physical eye, but soothe and provoke the third eye to awaken. In...

This short film follows a man lost in the woods driven by his fear of the unknown.

Chopin "Nocturnes" accompany this study in black and white inspired by Huysman's decadent novel "À rebours".

A hypnotic mise-en-abyme constructed from JVC camcorder footage of a parking garage. Produced in tribute to teacher, filmmaker and video artist...

Concerned with processes of assembly, CHOIR brings together disparate bodies of material and archival technologies into dissonant concert. It is a...

A film constructed from a succession of drawings on old books.

Video art piece by Michigan artist Gio Orlando.

A disorienting realm where reality itself flickers and fragments. Through a visceral exploration of digital distortion and failing verification...